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Fly.io isn't as much cutting-edge as it is a rethink on what devex on Cloud should look like. It is a fantastic offering that despite its shortcomings is really
by ignoramous 4y ago
Fly.io isn't as much cutting-edge as it is a rethink on what devex on Cloud should look like. It is a fantastic offering that despite its shortcomings is really a delight to use. I use it for toy projects (mostly stateless, or state stored elsewhere but not on Fly.io), but there are plenty who run pretty serious workloads. Give it a spin! You'd be surprised how butter-smooth all that cutting-edge is.
- cxr 4y ago> [...] despite its shortcomings [...] What do you see as some of its shortcomings? Do e.g. semi-broken docs (or other instances of unclear/uncertain messaging) factor into your impression?
- ignoramous 4y agoDocs, oh god yes. They're the anti-Stripe in this regard. And hard-to-debug deploy-time (and sometimes runtime / uptime) issues are a major sticking point. It is hard to know what or who's at fault without asking for it in the forums, since you can't stackoverflow much. Their support (granted it's free) is a bit of a hit and a miss; while it isn't clear what really is on their roadmap (or important) and what isn't (even though, they are more than transparent than other providers I've interacted with). These are but pains that come with adopting a nascent ecosystem, I suppose. I still persist with Fly because it is still simpler to build certain apps on it than on any other BigCloud (bar Cloudflare).